Sunday, March 18, 2007
The San Vampyrian Chronicles!
....and it is truly beautiful: sunny, cool, yet warm as well....birds sing, and slight breezes blow off the Bay....the smells of neighborhood breakfasts float through the air, and I am sitting on the lovely wooden deck right off Paul and Steve's apartment....perfect, really...two cups of Steve's wonderful fresh coffee in me...we are planning a day at the Ferry Building, exploring that neighborhood, starting at the top of the Greenwich Street Steps and walking down them to the Ferry...yesterday we explored Lyon Street and the astonishing large Pacific Heights mansions there, including walking down the enormously steep stairs that transverse Lyon's various cross streets....i've honestly never seen anything like it: houses, mansions, built of stone and sitting on steeply terraced hills, and looking as if they have been there forcenturies, so solid and established as they apparantly areL Old San Francisco money, I would imagine. Truly magnificent. Making me wonder who owns them, who lives there, and how do they manage to make enough money to support these huge dwellings, both home and gardens surrounding them.
Another odd thing was that we never saw people in them, coming from them or entering them...all I ever managed to see now and then were the gardeners, indoor servants (at one establishment, I saw a vested butler open the back garden gate and pick up mail...so distinguished looking....I of course invented an entire back sotry for him...for all I kno whe could have been the owner of the mansion picking up his own mail, but somehow I think not. But this particular man seemed Causasion...all the other people I've seen surrounding the houses have been people of color, Asian or Mexicano....so of course, as my bias dictates, I assumed they were servants....
ANother thing: all the shades seemed drawn on these enormous places. SIlk shades, wooden slatted blinds, brocades, all closing the windows away from the outside world of tourists and gawkers, and neighbors of equal rank....so, we came up with this idea:
THE SAN VAMPYRAN CHRONICLES!!! San Francisco as being The City of the Damned...hence all the earthquakes...a city of enormous vampire population, ages and ages old...all the shades drawn because of course they cannot let sunlight in...and the idea of a vast, connecting railway system of underground paths and roads, totally decorated with silken walls, crystal rail cars and brilliant lighting systems, through which the vampiric population travels during the daytimes....each neighborhood, each section of the Vampire Empire is home to a different and unique clan of vampire beings: and there are constantly wars going on over how to divide the remaining human population fairly so that all vampires can survive....and of course, how to attract more and more tourists and human settlers so that fresh blood supply is always flowing into the city....the earthquakes are caused by the underground wars over territory and hunting rights! And the energies that cause the quakes is , of course, a superhuman and vampiric dimension....and the San Vampyrian Empire has been here since the dawn of time, way before America was settled and way before it's Westward Expansion....vampires being direct descendants of primordial ooze...the dinosaurs did not disappear because of all the scientific reasons believed: they were hunted and bled dry by the pre-historic vampires wio came from the earliest swamps! So THIS VAMPIRE SECRET HAS HAD TO BE PROTECTED SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME....or else they would have been hunted down and killed off...but they have survived every single era of mankind because of their cunning and adaptability....they are very clever this ancient race: they have had to be!
One way they have had us fooled is by cleverly allowing certain of their species to become "fiction" writers (like Ann Rice, etc), makers of movies, etc.....the ancient lineage has dictated that certain tales be allowed abroad about mythic vampire adventurers,like Dracula,etc....why has this been allowed? To make i clear that any ideas we have about vampires are total myth and fiction....so ridiculous as to be literally impossible to ever be real. Clever camouflage....hide right out in the open!
Who knows, by my writing this tale, maybe I am a San Vampyrian too!.
Another odd thing was that we never saw people in them, coming from them or entering them...all I ever managed to see now and then were the gardeners, indoor servants (at one establishment, I saw a vested butler open the back garden gate and pick up mail...so distinguished looking....I of course invented an entire back sotry for him...for all I kno whe could have been the owner of the mansion picking up his own mail, but somehow I think not. But this particular man seemed Causasion...all the other people I've seen surrounding the houses have been people of color, Asian or Mexicano....so of course, as my bias dictates, I assumed they were servants....
ANother thing: all the shades seemed drawn on these enormous places. SIlk shades, wooden slatted blinds, brocades, all closing the windows away from the outside world of tourists and gawkers, and neighbors of equal rank....so, we came up with this idea:
THE SAN VAMPYRAN CHRONICLES!!! San Francisco as being The City of the Damned...hence all the earthquakes...a city of enormous vampire population, ages and ages old...all the shades drawn because of course they cannot let sunlight in...and the idea of a vast, connecting railway system of underground paths and roads, totally decorated with silken walls, crystal rail cars and brilliant lighting systems, through which the vampiric population travels during the daytimes....each neighborhood, each section of the Vampire Empire is home to a different and unique clan of vampire beings: and there are constantly wars going on over how to divide the remaining human population fairly so that all vampires can survive....and of course, how to attract more and more tourists and human settlers so that fresh blood supply is always flowing into the city....the earthquakes are caused by the underground wars over territory and hunting rights! And the energies that cause the quakes is , of course, a superhuman and vampiric dimension....and the San Vampyrian Empire has been here since the dawn of time, way before America was settled and way before it's Westward Expansion....vampires being direct descendants of primordial ooze...the dinosaurs did not disappear because of all the scientific reasons believed: they were hunted and bled dry by the pre-historic vampires wio came from the earliest swamps! So THIS VAMPIRE SECRET HAS HAD TO BE PROTECTED SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME....or else they would have been hunted down and killed off...but they have survived every single era of mankind because of their cunning and adaptability....they are very clever this ancient race: they have had to be!
One way they have had us fooled is by cleverly allowing certain of their species to become "fiction" writers (like Ann Rice, etc), makers of movies, etc.....the ancient lineage has dictated that certain tales be allowed abroad about mythic vampire adventurers,like Dracula,etc....why has this been allowed? To make i clear that any ideas we have about vampires are total myth and fiction....so ridiculous as to be literally impossible to ever be real. Clever camouflage....hide right out in the open!
Who knows, by my writing this tale, maybe I am a San Vampyrian too!.
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